All He Wants To Do Is EAT!

My 15 month old boy loves to eat. He will eat anything and everything. I try to keep it pretty healthy. But it is just really frustrating. He will literally just finish eating lunch and just want to get right back in his high chair and have more. He just cries and cries at his high chair. When he sees food he freaks out. If someone else is eating he NEEDS IT. If he sees my purse or diaper bag he loses it because he knows there are snacks in there. It is just getting really hard. He has always been like this. Even when I was only nursing he would want to nurse all the time. I don't want to over feed him but sometimes it is just easier to give him food then have him so fussy and mad and upset. i don't want him to think that if he just freaks out he will get to eat though. It just seems to be getting worse and worse. My husband is really busy right now with work and I just feel so overwhelmed with all of the crying! ahhhhhhhhhhh!

My 15 month old boy loves to eat. He will eat anything and everything. I try to keep it pretty healthy. But it is just really frustrating. He will literally just finish eating lunch and just want to get right back in his high chair and have more. He just cries and cries at his high chair. When he sees food he freaks out. If someone else is eating he NEEDS IT. If he sees my purse or diaper bag he loses it because he knows there are snacks in there. It is just getting really hard. He has always been like this. Even when I was only nursing he would want to nurse all the time. I don't want to over feed him but sometimes it is just easier to give him food then have him so fussy and mad and upset. i don't want him to think that if he just freaks out he will get to eat though. It just seems to be getting worse and worse. My husband is really busy right now with work and I just feel so overwhelmed with all of the crying! ahhhhhhhhhhh!

My guy has the opposite problem....he has the same behavior only with milk. He used to be a great eater now every meal is a battle. Hopefully, he'll grow out of it. Does he use a cup? Maybe you can get him to accept water or watered-down juice? Good luck

My guy has the opposite problem....he has the same behavior only with milk. He used to be a great eater now every meal is a battle. Hopefully, he'll grow out of it. Does he use a cup? Maybe you can get him to accept water or watered-down juice? Good luck

I wouldn't freak out too much. Mention it to your doc but as a mom of two big eaters, I can tell you eating a lot is normal for some. Both my boys eat like crazy. I'm dreading the teenage year grocery bills already! My 3 year old can definitely out eat me in the morning. He'll start with a bowl of cereal and some mornings will have a muffin, banana, strawberries then ask for Goldfish crackers. He still eats a good lunch after all this too. This little one will eat a package of oatmeal at 7 then have a whole muffin and grapes at 9 and eat a big lunch too. I won't even get into the rest they can eat in a day! Neither one is overweight or unhealthy. They're just growing boys.

I wouldn't freak out too much. Mention it to your doc but as a mom of two big eaters, I can tell you eating a lot is normal for some. Both my boys eat like crazy. I'm dreading the teenage year grocery bills already! My 3 year old can definitely out eat me in the morning. He'll start with a bowl of cereal and some mornings will have a muffin, banana, strawberries then ask for Goldfish crackers. He still eats a good lunch after all this too. This little one will eat a package of oatmeal at 7 then have a whole muffin and grapes at 9 and eat a big lunch too. I won't even get into the rest they can eat in a day! Neither one is overweight or unhealthy. They're just growing boys.

My 16 month old is the same way Nd has been for awhile now. I just give him slightly smaller portions during meals and give him snacks throughout the day. Jax will munch on a celery stick for almost an hour. And I usually have a small handful of dry Cheerios out in a bowl for him with some banana chips in it so he can snack throughout the day. I think of it as a metabolism thing, and that as long as he's not snacking on anything bad then it's ok. He has maintained the same weight and hasn't had any issues an I've done this for 3 months now.

My 16 month old is the same way Nd has been for awhile now. I just give him slightly smaller portions during meals and give him snacks throughout the day. Jax will munch on a celery stick for almost an hour. And I usually have a small handful of dry Cheerios out in a bowl for him with some banana chips in it so he can snack throughout the day. I think of it as a metabolism thing, and that as long as he's not snacking on anything bad then it's ok. He has maintained the same weight and hasn't had any issues an I've done this for 3 months now.

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